Attachment to telephone-transmitters.



PATENTED APR. 9, *1907. F. G. MOULTON. ATTACHMENT TO TELEPHONE TRANSMITTERS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 8, 1906.

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FLORA G. MOULTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT TO TELEPHONE-TRANSMITTERS.

Specification uf Letters Patent.

ratenteci April 9, 1907.

Application filed October 8,1906. Serial No. 337,865.

To all when it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLORA G. MOULTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ohicage, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments to Telepl'ione-Transmitters, of which the following is a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the hereto accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 shows a fragment of a desk telephone-transmitter provided with a part of my said attachment. Fig. 2 shows the attachment to said device in plan view taken on the plane 2 2 of Fig. 1, provided with all .the elements of my attachment except the stems or handles of the parts to be held by said elements. Fig. 3 shows a transverse section of the mouthpiece of a wall or house telephone-transmitter in elevation taken on the cutting plane 4 4 of Fig. 4, the same having one eye-clamp holding a fragment of a stem or handle of some object which may be held in said clamp, the clamp in front of it being removed. Fig. 4- shows the same device in plan view with all its stem-holding parts connected to it. Fig. shows one stemclamp provided with special members which is adapted for a pencil-holder or like use. .Fig. 6 shows in front elevation a fragment of a mirror-frame and mirror and a paper or tablet holder behind it with a fragment of a tablet or piece of paper in its holder and. part of its stem. Fig. 7 shows in edge view a mirror-frame and its handle or stem and a tablet-holder behind it with a tablet in said holder. Fig. 8 shows an element of Fig. 2 in elevation. Fig. 9 shows an. element of Fig. 3 in elevation. Fig. 10 shows an element of Fig. 2 in elevation.

Like reference-letters denote like parts throughout.

The object of my invention is to provide telephone-transmitters with fit attachments wherewith may be held and suitably adjusted for use pencils, pens, small mirror or picture frames, and other like objects, which will add to the convenience and usefulness or adornment of said. instruments, and to attain said. desirable ends I construct my said attachments in substantially the following manner, namely:

To the neck or part a. of the stem of a deskphone is applied a clamping-band b of open- U shape, embracing with its arms a block 6, held by a bolt 9, passing through it and saidv arms, and on the outside of one of said arms is held by the same bolt a clamp (Z, which is of the closed form, its arms springing apart normally, so as to receive within its circular loop or eye a stem 72, which may form a part of a mirrorframe or a pictureframe or similar thing, and to said eye-clamp rZ attached a second eye-clamp], spaced to a convenient distance by a bored block or cylinder (5 on the bolt (1, its loop or eye set to the other side of the bolt so as to space the eyes of said loops as far apart as possible for the purpose of making their held parts more freely accessible. A wing-nut on the bolt draws all the arms of said several clamps together, and thereby holds every attached part or element frictionally and firmly to its place.

In case that the clampf should be designed to hold a pencil or pen and like objects it would have to be made large enough to admit the pencil into its eye without binding it after the bolt 9 has closed the clamp-arms on each other, or in lieu thereof from each edge of the clamp f may project suitably-formed springs and it, placed so close that such objects cannot pass between them, which will readily hold all the various-sized pens, pencils, and like articles, whether the arms of said clamps are open or closed.

For the house or wall telephone a U-shaped clamp I) embraces the mouthpiece A and holds between its arms a block 0, which is supplied with an extension 0 through the center of which passes a bolt 9', and on it are placed the arms of the closed clamp (Z to hold the stem 71 of the mirror-frame 7L with mirror n, and next to said clamp displaced a clampf for a pen or pencil holder, and similarly still other clamps may be added for other purposes, all of which will be closed and firmly friction-bound to their adjusted places by said wing-nut and its bolt 9.

A tablet-holder Z is attached to the frame h. As here shown it is one of a set of simple wire staples held in the frame it, into which the tablet m passes freely, there being two or more of such staples to form such a tablet holder.

By means of my said attachments to telephone-transmitters the user thereof is enabled to set the object held by them into any desired angle for the convenience of their use and all the parts may be held by a single bolt bolt adjustable, simultaneously, in horizontal and nut, as herein shown. and Vertical circles.

What I claim is- The combination with a telephone-trans- FLORA MOULTON 5 mitter and a U-shapecl clamp thereon with Vitnesses: I

block between its arms, and bolt through VVMA. ZIMMERMAN,

said arms and block, of eye-clamp on said F. S. GRAHAM. 

